Photobiography
About this book
Why do photographs interest writers, especially autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention, photographs have featured as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects in written texts. In autobiographical texts, their presence has raised particularly acute questions about the rivalry between these two media, their relationship to the real, and the nature of the constructed self. In this timely study, based on the most recent developments in the fields of photography theory, self-writing and photo-biography, Akane Kawakami offers an intriguing narrative which runs from texts containing metaphorical photographs through ekphrastic works to phototexts. Her choice of Marcel Proust, Hervé Guibert, Annie Ernaux and Gérard Macé provides unusual readings of works seldom considered in this context, and teases out surprising similarities between unexpected conjunctions.
Reader Profile
· 204 pages · ≈ 3 h 47 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read Photobiography?
About ≈ 3 h 47 m — 204 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Photobiography?
204 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Photobiography?
It sits on the Biography & Memoir, History shelves.
Is Photobiography in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Photobiography?
Akane Kawakami.